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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 06:18 PM
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Bite me all you frippin, psychotic little twistoid, big mouthed, so and so............
Edited on Mon Mar-24-08 06:26 PM by ThatBozGuy
Edited title so people will read it.

Original title: Primaries, General Elections, Electoral votes, Popular votes all the muddy waters


There is no popular vote in the Primaries.

There is an exit poll we call the "popular vote"

It has no "official" status in the primary except to use as a divider of the delegates and then it is discarded.

The proof is in the fact that the caucus votes are discarded and only the delegates are reported, there is actually no popular vote, those "votes" were never recorded and included, so know one actually knows what the popular vote is.

In addition there is no popular vote in the primary election rules anywhere, people are confusing the General with the primary and basically the popular "vote" number is just a fancy exit poll that has incomplete results.

It has zero impact other than a false mental edge, and ALL of the candidates know that, any campaign that is telling you that it counts for anything is being disingenuous. The delegates are it (no matter what flavor delegate) in deciding the primary.

Today I heard that the winner of the primary now is decided by electoral votes in november and that came from a Clinton campaign member, if they truly do not understand primaries and General election rules that dramatically it is no wonder why they don't know they have lost.
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